India’s first solar probe has sent some stunning images back to Earth.
Aditya-L1, the new mission from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), took a picture of herself in spaceplus shots of the Earth and the moon. ISRO combined the footage into a video, which the agency released Shared on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday (September 7).
Aditya-L1 It was launched on September 2nd. It performs pull-ups Low Earth orbit Now before heading towards its long-term destination to study the sun. (“Aditya” translates to “sun” in Sanskrit.) In about four months, the probe will reach the Earth-Sun. Lagrange Point 1 (L1), a gravitationally stable spot about 1 million miles (1.5 million km) from our planet in the direction of the Sun.
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“A satellite in corona orbit around point L1 has the great advantage of observing the sun continuously without any occultation or eclipse,” ISRO officials wrote in the Aditya-L1 mission description. “This will provide an even greater advantage for monitoring solar activities and their impact on space weather in real time.”
Aditya-L1 will study the sun to learn about a few things: solar activity, such as solar flares And Coronal mass ejection of charged particles that can evoke beauty twilight on Earth while causing danger to infrastructure such as satellites.
In addition, the “coronal heating problem” will be examined. This refers to the sun’s mysteriously hot outer atmosphere, which has temperatures of about 2 million degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 million degrees Celsius). According to NASA. last Sun layers It’s not nearly as hot, which remains a mystery to scientists as to how this happens.
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